The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-14
CREsCO, IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1887.

when number of visitors crowded around
him shouting ''Vive le Roi" he ordered them
to desist.
A farm house at Ardnahoe, Buteshire,
Scotland, was destroyed by IRE Friday
night and three men and four women SER
wants were burned to death.
Bordeaux-An explosion of gun cotton oc-
CURED on the eth in the powder mill at st
Medard, En- Jalle, eight miles northwest Of
this city. Three persons were blown to
atoms and many others were injured.
The Panama Star and Herald publishes q
statement to the effect that natives Of Co
lombia are being captured on the upper trib-
utaries OF the Amazon and are subsequently
sold in Brazil, and that Colombian diplO-
mats have been directing their attention to
the matter.
The trial Of Klein and his comrades i'm
plicated in the Schnabel affair has opened
at Leipsic. Klein admitted that he acted
as q French spy under the orders OF
Schnable and that he sent plans of designs
for fortresses at Strasburg and Mayence to
the French minister of war.
Advices from Cabul says that the Ameer
suspects the fidelity OF Jamshedies, near
Herat, owing to visits of Russian emissary
to the imprisoned Khan, and threatens to
execute him unless his tribe send to Cabul
some of their chiefs as hostages. A number
Of the head men Of Jamshiedies have gone
over to Russia. The forts at Herat have
been repaired and crops around the city
harvested.
Berne cable. 9th, Half the new quays at
Zug fell into the lake. Forty houses, q
crowded inn and the Hotel Zurich, four
story story structure, full Of visitors, van
ished entirely. The occupants Of the build
ngs were ere ensafsd while they slept and o1,.a at
president OF the Canton. Men are now at
work trying to recover the bodies Of the vic
Tins. An infant was found alive in float
ing cradle
Prince Ferdinand Maximillian Charles
Leopold Marie, Duke OF Saxe-Coburg, who
has just been elected to the throne Of
Bulgaria, was born February a6, 1851, at
Vienna, being the fifth child and third son
OF the late Prince Augustus, Duke of SAKE
CT Louis PHILIPPE, King OF the French.
Prince Ferdinand has served AZ lieutenant
in the l1th regiment Of the Austrian hussars
and now holds similar rank in the Hun
garian honved. His serene highness has
Travelled much, and is good linguist
The Independence day reception at the
American legation in London was the
largest ever held. Among the guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Blaine. Minister
Phelps proposed the Toast, mo Country
to Americans Like Home.'' It was re
sponded to by Mr.. Blaine, who said: The
United States is the Only country with .
known birthday. All the rest began, they
know not how, and grew into power, they
know not how. IL there had been no Fourth
England and America combined would not
be SO great as each actually is. There Is
no Republican, no Democrat to-day. AL
are Americans. All feel their country
greater than party. We meet here tonight
on this platform Of patriotism warmed by
emotions and traditions OF the Fourth Of
July. We celebrate the day on forign
soil, with generous people of the British
isles giving their presence and their sym:
| pathy, and contributing by their art and
beauty to the completeness Of the occasion,
which is at once inspiring and memorable.